July 10 Friday[RG] Saturday

We have a maid called Alice Mace. With her help the house was tidied & everything is now settled. L insisted on my sleeping[RG] staying in bed all day.
Rewrote Pygmalion to Galatea & wrote another poem about them.
Marble games with Harry in evening – ([RG] tiddlewink game)[RG]; and taking by hopping (one's own & others) with houghing1 : who survives with most wins.[RG]
Harry killed a rabbit with a stick, a small one, & felt bad about it.
Read a Wodehouse golfing book: Heart of a Goof2.
Laura put up new curtains.
My bed-workroom is pleasant now with all my things: B. [British] Columbia gloves, Solomon3 picture, map of Spain, 'pool near school' on wall; work-table lined with brown paper & my Swiss pewter tray-plate & marble (Caracallas4 baths) paper weight and pewter cigarette case, & my refugee toys – Jens Jenson pin cushion, french dower trunk lock & key, the N.N. dogs etc. My patchwork quilt (the triangle-cut one) on my bed. My ash chair with the rush bottom.

Editorial Notes

1hamstring? eds.
2 The Heart of a Goof by P.G. Wodehouse. London: H. Jenkins, Ltd., 1926. eds.
3Graves' dog in Deyá eds.
4Roman eds.